Unlike ordinary people who are partly nomadic and partly agrarian, with a complete state system, Western Liang, which is both nomadic and agrarian, can sustain more standing troops than the barbarians who outnumber them.
In the Helong battles over the past several years, with each spring and autumn, although the barbarians could muster four to five hundred thousand, or even six to seven hundred thousand cavalry, their momentum was indeed vast and boundless.
However, among these several hundred thousand troops, over eighty percent were temporarily conscripted barbarian herdsmen.
The actual number of full-time barbarian knights from all tribes only amounted to just over a hundred thousand.
You must know, these are the elite troops that tens of millions of barbarians could barely assemble.
Looking at this ratio, it's almost as if one hundred barbarians could only support one full-time soldier.
